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Where We Work

Healthy habitats and wildlife populations are essential for a thriving economy, environment and cultural heritage in Cambodia. Our communities rely on our ecosystems to provide what they need to live – from clean water and nutritious food to protection against flooding and natural disasters.

 

Nature, and the gifts it provides, are increasingly under threat. Amidst a poaching and snaring crisis, we are losing wildlife at alarming rates. We are also losing critical habitats to deforestation and unsustainable infrastructure development. To address these threats, WWF-Cambodia is working with the government, partner organizations, local communities and the private sector to conserve key landscapes and promote sustainable practices. 

 

Our organization focuses on protecting two landscapes with outstanding terrestrial and freshwater habitats: the Mekong Flooded Forest and the Eastern Plains Landscape. We also aim to address drivers of change in our landscapes through our Footprint Programme. 

 

Explore each of these programmes below to learn more.

 

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Mekong Flooded Forest

The Mekong Flooded Forest landscape, stretching across Kratie and Stung Treng provinces, safeguards a wealth of freshwater species in the Mekong River and its expansive floodplains. Besides the iconic Irrawaddy river dolphin, this ecosystem is also home to rare bird species and mysterious creatures like the Mekong giant catfish. Hog deer, believed extinct in Cambodia, were also rediscovered in this landscape in 2006.

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Eastern Plains Landscape

The Eastern Plains Landscape is one of the richest sources of biological diversity in the world. In the semi-evergreen and dry dipterocarp forests of Mondulkiri province, you can find the world’s largest population of banteng, as well as Cambodia’s largest population of Asian elephants. This wilderness also boasts a breeding population of Siamese crocodiles and the only known Indochinese leopard left in the country.

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Footprint: Beyond the Landscape

In order to protect our target landscapes, we must also address drivers that threaten local biodiversity, such as unsustainable production and consumption, climate change and ecologically destructive infrastructure. While protecting nature, our private sector engagement programmes bring economic opportunity to communities by building stable livelihoods.

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